When I returned to my SF Bay Area Home it felt empty and devoid of the previous life I had lived there. Of course it also must be said also that this was the house my wife and I retreated to for 2 years through the lost Covid Years that everyone on earth experienced too. So, traveling north to the Tetons, Yellowstone, Glacier and Banff and Lake Louise for 5 weeks time really blew out all the old cobwebs of the Covid era for better or for worse (usually both).
But, when I returned to a family home in Santa Barbara I felt welcomed by the Santa Barbara family home and this lifted up my spirits some.
But, returning south was also very sobering because it is very dry between the SF Bay area and Santa Barbara too with historic droughts all along the way. The one thing good along the coast is that the extreme heat inland is causing fog and drizzle to fall all along the coast at times which is keeping the coastal Redwoods and Oaks and Monterey Pines alive along with the bracken ferns common to the northern coast of California in the pine and oak and redwood forests.
So, it's very dry everywhere inland (more than 10 or 20 miles) that you go now because not enough rain fell from January to April or May to keep everything alive inland. So, this is why they are having a hard time keeping the Giant Sequoias alive this year from the Washburn fire in Yosemite National Park.
I woke up this morning to a sunny bright and cheery day after fog through the night here. High Fog was here which is good because low fog ends visibility for driving. So, the fog burned off I guess when the sun came up which is great!
Paso Robles heading south on 101 is the hottest weather we have seen so far on this trip south:
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